The brief paper to which I beg to call your attention for a few minutes is simply a plain commonsense talk on the treatment of epilepsy; my object being to point out how our ordinary methods of treatment may be supplemented and made more effective by closer attention to certain points too often considered of minor importance. I do not know that any one is able to tell us very much that is new in regard to the etiology or pathology of this disease, but we may hope to make some advance in the matter of treatment. I have lived with epileptics for the past fifteen years, have studied the disease in its various manifestations, and it is possible that what I have learned in regard to the minutiae of treatment, the minor details which are beyond the reach of the general practitioner, may be of interest to you. I